Sugar Cubes

After reading this, how can we not spread the word? its the least we can do for those who dedicated themselves to seek the truth and reveal it for all of us.

Should I go to work today?

My mother( 78 years old) used to tell me before going to work “my son take care”, but yesterday she asked me “is it true that they want to bomb your TV station? Don’t go to work.”

My little Haneen asked “why?” Who is going to kill dad, uncle Krechan, aunt Mayson, and aunt Hala? Please dad we don’t want to lose you and our friends, I don’t want to be like Khadeja, her father Tayser is not with her, or like Mohamed who doesn’t know his father Sami.

My wife came trying to hide tears in her face by a smile, and said “Yousef is a wise man, he can manage, we are not afraid. If you are going to save others life go ahead we are with you.”

That was this mornings conversation. I thought for a while is it right? Is there a human being who can think of bombing a TV station? Then I remembered my colleague Tayseer’s voice while I was in Qandhar, south Afghanistan, and he was in Kabul when he told me by phone of what happened and advised me to hide. Also I remembered him once again when he phoned me after bombing our office in Baghdad I was in my way from Amman to Baghdad, also I remembered Rashed Wali who was killed by a bullet in Karbala, Iraq, while we were reporting the fighting there between the US army & Al-Sader fighters, then I said that might occur again - someone may die. However I decided not to go back home but to participate in a campaign against the killers and those who think of bombing the truth seekers. Please tell me if I am right? If yes, my colleagues and I need your support. So do Tayseer, Sami, Tareq, and Rashid’s kids - we want to know the truth. Simply because we are men and women who bring you the news.

Yousef Al-Shouly

Read also:

Officially Secret: Al Jazeera Managing Director on Channel 4 News

Tariq Ayoub’s wife to sue the U.S.?

Related tags: Al Jazeera

A new website is offering free interactive street maps of Dubai and the rest of the Middle East. The map can be searched by street address and can even plan your route for you. Visit map 24

[Via 7Days]

UAE Map 24

I’ve got nothing to add to what Haitham and Naseem have already said. Well, maybe just a wish that one day love and peace will fill this World…

I encourage every Blogger to blog about this, and drop a comment at Al-Jazeera’s “Don’t Bomb Us” Blog

P.S sorry no pictures, Etisalat is depriving me the right of using flickr

More on this:

Media warned

Related tags: Al-Jazeera, Bush, Blair

Israeli military forces in Hebron fired gas canisters and percussion grenades at demonstrating elementary school students for the third consecutive day on Thursday.

Scores of students and teachers from the Ibrahimia and Al Fayha schools in Hebron’s Old City district commenced protests on Monday when Israeli forces indicated that they would be forced through recently installed electronic gates and X-Ray screening systems. Citing health hazards of frequent exposure to radiation produced by the scanners, the city’s education director suspended classes.

On Wednesday, teachers taught students in the streets around the schools.

Hebron Education Director Mohammed Al Qawasmeh indicated that by Thursday afternoon classes had resumed in the schools despite the continued presence of the gate and X-Ray systems.

Dozens of Palestinian journalists called to open an international investigation regarding the recent news published in the British Daily Mirror.

A news item claimed that US President Bush stopped plans to bomb Al Jazeera’s Qatar studios only when British PM Tony Blair talked him out of it.

Al Jazeera journalist, Wael Dahdouh, said that journalists began a sit-in strike to protest a planned Bush visit. Branches in the UAE’s Doha and other studios throughout the Middle East are doing the same.

Dahdouh called to open an investigation in the case of the US attacks on Al Jazeera offices in Baghdad and Kabul.

Journalist unions throughout the region agree with the necessity to open such an investigation.

Journalist Hassan Kashef said that Palestinian journalists do not need any proof of US aggression.

[ViaMaan]

Related tags: Palestine, Al-Jazeera

A conference will be held on the 26th of this month, November in Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland to launch a divestment campaign in Ireland that aims at getting Irish pension funds to divest from CRH, an Irish companywhich owns 25% of the only Israeli cement-manufacturing company, until/unless it provides an absolute guarantee that it is no longer involved in the supply of materials used in illegal Israeli construction projects in the West Bank.

According to the conference theme, attention will also be paid to the French company, Connex, that runs Dublin’s tram system and which has recently signed a contract to build an illegal Israeli tram system linking Pisgat Ze’ev and French Hill, two illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem. The conference will decide what actions to be taken against Connex in regard of the franchise to run Dublin’s tram system.

The keynote speakers will be:

[For additional information]

I can only say hats off!!

Related tags: Palestine, Israel, Ireland, crh, Connex

In response to the barbaric terrorist explosions that targeted innocent lives in our beloved Amman, an initiative of Jordanian citizens (Risalitna) has been launched to demonstrate loyalty to Jordan, resistance to terrorism and solidarity with the families of the victims.

Risalitna counters terrorists’ message of unjustifiable killing and destruction by a Jordanian message of peace, tolerance and coexistence. Risalitna also affirms unity of all Jordanians.

Sixty innocent people were killed. Tens more lay in hospitals with injuries ranging from difficult to life-threatening. Wives have been widowed, men have been left with young children to raise without loving mothers, and youths lost their families and the source of their livelihood and future education. Death and destruction have left a profound impact on hundreds of Jordanians from all walks of life, many with real and immediate needs of financial support. Their future is either misery or, through support of generous Jordanians, one of hope to re-emerge and lead lives with hope, respect and dignity.

Consequently, Risalitna is spearheading a fundraising campaign under the theme: from the people, to the people. This campaign seeks to raise financial support to the individuals and families most impacted by this 9/11 tragedy. Organized in cooperation with both Christian and Muslim associations, Risalitna will provide support to the neediest families through the YMCA and YMWA.

From the people, to the people is a unique partnership between Jordanian citizens. The Jordanian Joint Chiefs of Staff, media, private sector and NGOs granted this citizens’ initiative immense and prompt support. Such a partnership underscores the message that “each one of us is Jordan.”

The victims of the 9/11 terror and their victimized families need your support. You can demonstrate your support in a variety of ways including calling the telephone number (09000-9000) from a landline or any mobile telephone from Jordan. You can also purchase a Risalitna poster or car sticker from stores throughout Jordan. The families will most benefit from direct cash contributions into a dedicated bank account number (53950) at Union Bank/Jabal Amman. All funds collected will be distributed directly by the YMCA and YMWA based on strict criteria of need.

Demonstrate your good citizenship and patriotism and contribute to the victims. Your efforts will help the needy and beat the terrorists.

Please pass on the news to family and friends in Jordan.

Related tags: Jordan, explosions

This is the second email I receive from Convergence about Bird Flu. William Thomas suggests that bird flu was another “Saddam” Washington created to collect money.

Note: I haven’t done my homework, yet. I’m going to read about it while you scratch your head and ponder.

Flu Mongers
A Convergence Weekly update on Washington’s vaccine scams

by William Thomas

11/25/05

Fueled by apocalyptic pronouncements from a fundamentalist White House, and an unquestioning corporate press, the ongoing asian bird flu scare is already netting millions for shareholders of a useless vaccine—including Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of the company that created it. Read more on Washington’s vaccine scams.

It works every time: Instill fear. Offer solutions. Sign here.

And people do, lining up en masse to eagerly relinquish their rights and reason to slick salesmen and saviors (and a few female accomplices) who promise to protect them from threats manufactured by mass media mesmerizers paid by the same corporations supplying “fixes” that never resolve anything but only ensure further disasters-and-profitable responses in an endless cycle money traders call “movement”—meaning the mass migration of money from your pocket to theirs.

Real pandemics like the infamous “Black Plague”, and the 1918 Spanish Flu recently traced to US Army typhoid vaccinations have infected human populations in the past. And no doubt they will again as overcrowded megaslums, chronic malnutrition, rapid climate shifts, and reckless germ warfare labs in Canada, the USA, Britain and various apartment sinks incubate microbes that might re-inherit the Earth they once ruled before fish walked out of the sea and shrews climbed down from the trees to become people.

But not bird flu. Not this time. And probably not tomorrow.

BANK JOBS

As repeated apocalyptic warnings from a fundamentalist White House foretell a worldwide flu pandemic, the same flumongers who sold Americans on a similar threat from Saddam continue to decant the heavily mortgaged US Treasury into offshore accounts already flush with their share of hundreds of billions of dollars looted from the people of Iraq and the USA.

This brazen robbery of America’s money and morals is shamelessly personified by an aptly titled “vice” president who headed Halliburton when that huge supplier of services and logistics cashed in on the destruction of Vietnam, Burma and Bosnia—before assuming his top post in a White House handing “no-bid” contracts to Halliburton to rebuild the look-alike ruins of Iraq and the US Gulf Coast.

And whatever comes next.

During that same period of Dick Cheney’s reign at Halliburton, Donald Rumsfeld served as chairman of Gilead Sciences Inc. Coming onboard in 1997, a year after this California biotech firm developed and patented the Tamiflu vaccine, the former salesman of nuclear reactors to North Korea remained at his lucrative post until joining the Bush coup in 2001.

Today, Tamiflu is the most sought-after drug on the planet. Said to protect against a flu bug that annihilates chickens, along with a handful of Asian handlers sharing foul, windowless warehouses even worse than Abu Ghraib, the unproven vaccine has made America’s Secretary of Permanent War and Torture even richer. Still holding Gilead shares valued in Fortune magazine as high as $25 million, Rumsfeld’s dividends have reportedly made him more than a million dollars over the past six months of White House flumongering. 2005 sales for Tamiflu are forecast at $1 billion—up from $258 million in 2004.

OPPORTUNITIES AND OPPORTUNISTS

The vaccine scam really got rolling in 1996, when a team of representatives from the world’s leading drug pushers got together with the Pentagon to inaugurate a Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program.

The first closed-door meetings between White House officials and this insider pharma Task Force on Emergency Preparedness foreshadowed subsequent get-togethers at the Clinton White House, when a first-time “outbreak” of modified West Nile fever surfaced suspiciously in Queens, New York in October 2000. Most likely originating among birds dying outside the nearby Plum Island biowarfare lab, this “emergency” saw Clinton command a crash program to stockpile millions of doses of an unproven antidote marketed by a company called OraVax.

Never mind that a bug unleashing all the symptoms of a mild flu only killed four people. As one reporter put it, “The real emergency was that OraVax was going broke.”

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Related tags: bird flu, health, science, flu, avian flu, H5N1